- "That weapon defeats foes with one hit. However, the reverse is also true, as its wielder will also fall to a single strike. You can use this weapon's ability only twice within a set period of time...only when it is glowing. When enough time passes, the weapon will regain its sheen along with its power."
- ― Maz Koshia describing the One Hit Obliterator (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
The power to kill the target in a single hit. Variation of Absolute Attack, Death Inducement and Probability Manipulation.
Also Called
- Death in One Strike
- Instant Kill Attack
- One Shot Kill
- Single Hit Kill
Capabilities
The user can kill the target with a single strike. The attack carries special attributes, such as lethal poison or death inducement, that would result in an instant death the moment it connects, disregarding on the location of contact or the target's remaining vitality. This power is not simply the act of killing a target in a single strike, rather, the strike must possess a certain quality other then raw power that allows it to do so.
The instant kill may be capable of bypassing Resurrection, as it deals death before the opponent has a chance to rejuvenate.
Variations
Associations
- Absolute Attack
- Absolute Strength
- Conceptual Attacks
- Destiny Manipulation
- Durability Negation
- Irreversible Destruction
- Iaido Intuition
- Luck
- Probability Manipulation
- Special Attacks
Limitations
- Cannot affect those who can survive anything.
- Cannot kill and harm the users of Absolute Immortality and Life and Death Transcendence.
- Will not work on Flawless Indestructibility and Absolute Invulnerability.
- If the attack is blocked or evaded, it becomes useless.
- Friendly fire or misfire will lead to unintentionally killing an ally or oneself.
- May only work under certain conditions/targets.
- May not work on those with Immortality or Invulnerability due to limitations of the user.
- Useless against users of an Unfettered Body or Meta Resurrection.
- May be ineffective to users of Undead Physiology.
- Doesn't work on Layered Life.
Known Users
See Also: One-Hit Kill.
Anime/Manga/Manhwa
- Fiamma of the Right (A Certain Magical Index)
- Users of Murasame (Akame Ga Kill!)
- Gin Ichimaru (Bleach) via Korose, Kamishini no Yari
- Saechika (Code:Breaker); Effacement
- Arcadiamon (Digimon); via god Matrix
- Omnimon X (Digimon); via All Delete
- Jesmon GX (Digimon); Knights' Intruder
- Spike the Devil Man (Dragon Ball); via Devilmite Beam
- Zeref (Fairy Tail); via Ankhseram Black Magic
- Ai Enma (Hell Girl)
- Yoshikage Kira (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure); via Killer Queen
- Kaguya Ōtsutsuki (Naruto); via Murderous Bone Ash/All-Killing Ash Bones
- Magellan (One Piece)
- Jirou Sorashima (Wallman)
Cartoon/Comics
- Death (Family Guy)
- Mirabel (The Fungus Among Us); only on Players with less than full netherite armor
- Saint of Killers (Preacher/Vertigo Comics)
- Practitioners of the Hercules Method (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode)
Literature
- Farslayer (Book of Swords)
- Users of the Deplorable Word (Chronicles of Narnia)
- Basilisk (Harry Potter)
- Users of Killing Curse (Harry Potter)
- Nefarian Serpine (Skulduggery Pleasant); via his Red Right Hand
Folklore/Mythology
- Medusa (Greek Mythology); via Petrifying Gaze
- Basilisk (Mythology/Folklore)
- Cockatrice (Mythology/Folklore)
- Grim Reaper (Mythology/Folklore)
Tabletop Games
- Exodia the Forbidden One (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
- Holactie the Creator of Light (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Video Games
- White Bomber (Bomberman 64: The Second Attack)
- Regulus/Bulzeeb (Bomberman 64: The Second Attack)
- Astral Knights (Bomberman 64: The Second Attack)
- Death (Dragon's Dogma)
- Cid Kagenou (Minoru Kagenou) (The Eminence in Shadow)
- Rest (Final Fantasy VI); via Calmness/Repose
- Users of "Lethality" (Fire Emblem)
- Xemnas (Kingdom Hearts II)
- Link (The Legend of Zelda)
- Silent Realm Guardians (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
- X (Mega Man series); via Hadouken and Shoryuken.
- Awakened Zero (Mega Man X5)
- Dark Sun (Miitopia)
- Fiend (Miitopia)
- Terror Fiend (Miitopia)
- Kombatants (Mortal Kombat)
- Ultimate Chimera (Mother 3)
- Dr. Zomboss (Plants vs Zombies)
- Zombies (Plants vs Zombies)
- Gargantuars
- Electric Blueberry (Plants vs Zombies 2)
- Pokémon who can use "Fissure", "Guillotine", "Horn Drill", or "Sheer Cold" (Pokémon)
- Robloxians (ROBLOX);via Mad Murderer Knife
- Machina (Shinza Banshou series); via Midgardr Völsunga Saga
- Reinhatd Tristan eugene Heydrich (Shinza Banshou series); via Longinuslanze Testament
- Ren Fuji(Shinza Banshou series); via Margueritte-Bois de Justice
- Golden Queen ("Skylanders Battlecast"); using The Queen’s Decree
- Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood)
- Silver the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog 2006)
- The Ghost (Spelunky)
- Inklings (Splatoon)
- Agent 3
- Octarians (Splatoon)
- DJ Octavio
- Akuma (Street Fighter)
- Boss Bass (Super Mario Bros.)
- Bubba (Super Mario 64)
- Barbatos Goetia (Tales of Destiny)
- The Spy (Team Fortress 2)
- Marshall Law (Tekken Series)
- Paul Phoenix (Tekken Series)
- King Hassan (TYPE-MOON); via Azrael
- Li Shuwen (TYPE-MOON)
- Chara (Undertale)
- Deathwing (Warcraft)
- Illidan Stormrage (Warcraft)
- Lich King (Warcraft)
Known Items
Anime/Manga/Manhwa
- Murasame (Akame Ga Kill!)
- The Vorpal Blade/Sword (Jabberwock)
- Doku Doku no Mi's Kinjite Poison (One Piece)
- Incarnation of the Radius Sword (Sword Art Online)
- Object Eraser (Sword Art Online)
- Gae Bolg (TYPE-MOON)
Literature
- Ivory Knife (Chronicles of the Kencyrath)
- Killing Curse (Harry Potter)
- The Vorpal Blade/Sword (Jabberwocky by Lewis Carrol)
- God-Killer Sword (Skulduggery Pleasant)
- Sceptre of the Ancients (Skulduggery Pleasant)
Video Games/Visual Novels
- Gravity Bomb (Bomberman 64: The Second Attack)
- Daybreak (Kid Icarus: Uprising)
- Fatalities (Mortal Kombat)
- Mehrunes' Razor (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)
- One-Hit Obliterator (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
- Boomerang (The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening)
- Light Arrows (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker)
- Genmurei (Mega Man X5)
- Last Word (Planescape)
- Death Skills (Shin Megami Tensei)
- Certain Inkling weapons (Splatoon)
- Certain Octarian weapons (Splatoon)
- Butterfly Knife weapons (Team Fortress 2)
Gallery
Anime/Manga/Manhwa
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki (Naruto) using her Murderous Bone Ash/All-Killing Ash Bones that will cause her victims to disintegrate into ashes the moment it pierces the body.
Magellan's (One Piece) Hell's Judgement/Kinjite poison spreads like a disease through organic material and rocks and kills instantly the moment it infects the target.
Yui (Sword Art Online) wielding the Object Eraser, a flaming blade which can destroy anything it's used against, such as a boss monster that would be impossible to beat, in a single strike.
Literature
Video Games
White Bomber (Bomberman 64: The Second Attack) detonating a Gravity Bomb, which will kill any and all it sucks in instantly, including White Bomber if he's not careful.
Mehrunes' Razor (Elder Scrolls) is the Daedric Artifact of Mehrunes Dagon and has a chance of killing any being with a single cut.
The Vorpal Sword (Jabberwock) can kill the Jabberwocky with one hit. In other lore, it can kill anything with a single cut.
The One-Hit Obliterator (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) is a divine weapon capable of felling a foe in a single stroke at the expense of exhibiting the same circumstances to the wielder.
Link's (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker) Light Arrows will instantly kill any evil forces it pierces, bypassing any defenses and vanquishing it in pure light.
The Ultimate Chimera (Mother 3) is an enemy that pursues Lucas' party through the Chimera Laboratory and can instantly kill if it catches you
Machina's (Shinza Banshou series) Briah, Midgardr Völsunga Saga, allows him, with merely a single blow, to erase the existence of anything with a history, including living beings, inanimate objects, and even concepts.
Certain weapons the Inklings (Splatoon) use deal enough damage in one hit to "splat" their enemies instantly.
Certain weapons the Octarians (Splatoon), such as DJ Octavio, use deal enough damage in one hit to "splat" Agent 3 instantly.